should sex ed be in school period?

Question

if sex ed is in school don't you think your kids will try it if they learn about.

Answer 1

definitely. I feel that i would have been more prepared for life and my first time if it wasn't just some Thing you had once in 8th grade gym class where people felt weird asking questions. I think we would really cut down on teenage pregnancy and the spread of STD in our youth. But because of uptight people we would have to make it a electoral class.

Answer 2

I think it will depend on the quality of the instruction. Schools should not be teaching students "how to do it". They should be teaching the consequences of doing it. They should be teaching about menstruation and wet dreams and what they are and helping kids to understand what is happening in their bodies, which can be quite frightening, if you don't know. Ideally, the parents should be teaching these things at home, but unfortunately, often this doesn't happen. Or they are taught wrong ideas. Abstinence should be most specifically taught in schools. If schools all made the kids carry around those dolls that cry and wet and have responsibility for say, a month, they might realize that having children is not something they are ready for at this young of an age. Certainly venereal diseases should be discussed. AIDS and hepatitis, herpes and syphilis, gonorrhea and genital warts are other topics that need to be taught. If it feels good, do it is not the kind of thing our children should learn from the street...and that's what they will get if we don't teach them correctly.

Answer 3

As a mother of 2 girls and 2 boys,I believe the basics need to be taught at home.BUT realistically,how many kids ever take their parents serious]seriously when talking about sex? I do believe that sex ed be taught in the school.My parents never ever talked about sex.I got pregnant at 17,(he's now 21).Alot of parents do not approach talking to their kids about sex.My 2 oldest are 18 and 21 and are still virgins.They had sex ed in school and decided to actively restrain from sexual relations until they finish college.My 12 year old just had the course and it helped reinforce what I had told her.Actually we went to the library and found a book that was easy for her to understand and we read it together.Then i asked her if she had any questions and I answered her questions.
When my fiancees son became sexually active,we took him to the Health Department b/c he was not comfortable with us talking to him. It was worth the trip.So there are many outlets for children to learn from.It should come from the parents,but if it don't then where will it come from??? As a parent you do have the right to have your child refrain from the course.Personally I am thankful they have the opportunity to have the parents answers reinforced.

Answer 4

Many parents either won't or don't have the fortitude to except another extremely important aspect of rearing a little human.

Having a somewhat consistant access (class rooms) to give these little humans some kind of, very necessary, information makes for the absolute need for this subject matter to be offered up.

The general laziness and detachment from being responsible for creating another person that our sociaty has grown into with each generation makes it absolutely necessary.

i.e. americans and illegal immigrants alike have come to expect that our government's purpose it to give us everything and take care of us.

REMEMBER what THE original SUBJECT matter IS: sex ed in the school - PERIOD.

Answer 5

Yes. Sex Ed should be part of biology. No, it's information. If someone has been contemplating having sex, information about how not to get an incurable disease or a disease that will damage the body is not going to convince them to do it. I think that pictures of how STDs affect the body should be part of the education. STDs are some of the most horrible diseases to look at. It shouldn't convince, it should discourage.

Answer 6

Thanks to the internet, our kids can learn more about sex than anyone! If it is taught in the classroom, age 7 should be the starting age for sex education classes, then they can be taught VERY IMPORTANT things like aids, std's, and CHILDREARING. Many kids have NO IDEA what happens to the rest of their lives the minute they give birth to a child. Sex is the easy part, it is everything else that happens BECAUSE OF SEX that is really difficult.

Answer 7

It scares me more what the kids will do and believe without sex education. It would be wonderful if parents would be honest with their kids about sex, but they won't so that leaves it up to the schools. Have you ever heard some of the idoit things young
teens believe about sex?

Like (you can't get pregnant when you are standing up)

Answer 8

yes it should some parents can not talk to there kids about things like that or just don't have the correct knowledge of it so it should definitely be in schools.

Answer 9

No I believe that parents should be talking to there children about that and not introduced to it by strangers.

Answer 10

i think its more aimed at kids who are going to do it - to make it safer for them. and are you kidding me? do you think there are kids who don't know about sex? or don't have some sort of peer pressure to do it?